Spying a lissome young woman standing topless on a nearby balcony, Giorgos (Andreas Barcoulis) climbs up onto a nearby rooftop to get a better look. At a critical moment in his climb, his family and friends call out to him and he falls, suffering a terrible blow to the head. Ineed, at the hospital, the family is told that he is brain dead, and that if they like, his heart can be given to someone else as a transplant. Giorgos' grieving wife (Betty Livanou) agrees to this arrangement. The film now follows the recipient of the dead man's heart (Giorgos Constas), as he wanders all over Greece, driven by his newly lusty heart into the arms of many beautiful women. Eventually he is led to the one woman his new heart truly loved, Giorgios' wife.
After 11-year-old Petros loses his father in a car accident in Melbourne, Australia, his mother decides to move the family to her homeland, Greece. Petros has been planning to run away from home ever since the big move. After persuading his classmate, Adonis, to join him, the two boys decide to make the journey to Australia together. Their parents look for the children all over Greece to no avail. The only one who knows the boys' whereabouts is their best friend, whom nobody believes. Petros and Adonis' pictures are published all over the press, but no one comes forward with any information. Meanwhile, the boys continue on their journey...
In his film, Menelaos Karamaghiolis attempts to trace the evolution of the gypsy race in Europe, particularly in Greece, through four different points of view. These are expressed in the narrations of four people: the Teacher, the Photographer, Tamara, the old gypsy lady and the young girl Aima.
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes panic-stricken. The unjust charge brought against him ignites his deeper feelings of guilt which stem from his sterile existence and, mainly, from his inability to produce creative work. Then he flees and begins wandering in an unfamiliar "country" where his painful adventures will finally prove redeeming. The film is an existential drama in the form of a "dreamlike" thriller.
As a coincidental event unites a publisher and a hospital manager, sinister revelations entangle the couple with the aspiration of an editor-in-chief. Will he unearth the truth? After all, almost everybody has a skeleton in the closet.
George Konstas (born in Piraeus in 1949) studied at the Drama School of the Piraeus Association and at the Piraeus Conservatory (classical singing and flute). He also studied dance and worked in Zouzou Nikoloudi's Chorika and Rallou Manou's Chorodrama. For several years he worked at the National Theater with directors Alexis Minotis, Alexis Solomos, Spyros Evangelatos and others. From 1983 to 1987 he took over the theater department of the Alberus Magnus Gymnasium in Southern Germany.m In 1991-1992, through the Municipality of Corinth and the support of the European Union, he directed a program on the Study of Ancient Drama, which resulted in the creation of a large theater group and the staging of Euripides' tragedy "Bacchae" in the ancient theaters of Corinth. He starred in many theatrical works such as "The Handmaids" by Jean Genet, directed by himself, "Death and the Daughter" by Dorfman, directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, "Totenfloss" by Harald Müller, directed by Ersis Vasilikiotis, "Trachiniae" by Sophocles, directed by Nikos Diamantis, "Behind the Scenes" by Sartre, directed by himself, "The Conservator", a play of his own, directed by himself. He played key roles in Greek cinema and television films. George Konstas passed away on Saturday, January 17, at the age of 65.
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